I am an 87 year old gay retired Pennsylvania Dutch farmer/artist recently moved to South Florida from the Pine Needle Retirement Home in Lancaster Pennsylvania. I write about Art, my art, art criticism, art theory, LGBT issues, ageism, philosophy, and politics.

January 26, 2004

It’s Gone!
It’s Gone!

The wicked cast is gone!

I’m happy as a twittering lark

Because the darn thing's gone!

Yeah, I know dear Journal, it’s a terrible poem!

But, I’m so happy!

The doctor said the x-ray showed the ankle to be in good shape. He also siad, “ It’s amazing how quickly you’ve mended, Isaac. You have remarkable regenerative powers for a man of 84 years.” I told him that 9 weeks was not short when you have to live it and he chuckled. I have physical therapy scheduled 3 times during the next week because my range of motion is terrible, and it hurts like “bleep” to put pressure on it, but...

It’s gone!
It’s Gone!

How About “Opportunity?”

It landed softly and began broadcasting images almost immediately. Opportunity Rover touched down on Mars at 9:05 PST this past Saturday. NASA said they also thought that they would be able to fix Spirit, Opportunity’s sister Mars lander, within the next several weeks.

For images taken by Spirit go to Spirit Mars Lander first stereo pairs. The image on this page was taken from Spirit’s Panoramic camera. I found it on the NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory site, “Spirit all Raw Images,” at “http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/spirit_p001.html,” last update, 25 January 2004 (January 25, 2004, 9:18 A.M. EST)

Mars, here we come!

It's amazing to think that these are not Earth pebbles, rocks, and sand. This is the actual stuff of the Martian surface, and it's at least 36 million miles away!

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I am an 87 year old gay X-Amish artist recently moved to South Florida from the Pine Needle Retirement Home in Lancaster, PA. In my journal I detail my daily existence here, in South Florida. I write about Art, my art, art criticism, art theory, LGBT issues, ageism, philosophy, and politics. I also channel Stephen Gulliver a 28 year old gay man from an alternate reality in which a neo-conservative government threatens the lives of lesbian and gay people.